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A HISTORICAL TIME-LINE
What was going on in the world when a given lure was produced in the 1900 to 1940 era?
In 1900 the US population was 76 million. From 1900 to 1910:
- Congress enacted the gold standard
- First annual World Series
- San Francisco earthquake
- Wright Brothers invent the airplane
- Ford introduced the model T car
- Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
- Oklahoma becomes 47th state
- Heddon founded
- Creek Chub founded
- Jamison founded
- Moonlight founded
- Pflueger existed
- Shakespeare existed
- Ans B. Decker starts
- K & K Manufacturing
In 1910 the US population was 92 million. From 1910 to 1920:
- Jim Thorpe wins decathlon
- Federal Trade Commission started
- First Transatlantic radiotelephone communication
- Congress adopts the Fourteenth Amendment: Prohibition
- Great Influenza Epidemic
- Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil
- Income Tax began
- Pancho Villa raids New Mexico
- Lusitania Sunk
- Diplomatic relations cut with Germany: World War I
- South Bend created
- Wilson (Hastings) founded
- Fred C. Keeling founded
- Detroit Glass Minnow tube
- The Captor by J.B. Fischer
In 1920 the US population was 110 million. From 1920 to 1930:
- Jack Dempsy becomes heavyweight champ
- Women's suffrage passed
- First commercial radio broadcast
- Cecil B. DeMille's: "The Ten Commandments"
- Walt Disney: Mickey Mouse cartoon
- Lindbergh flies the Atlantic solo
- Warren Harding is President
- Congress creates Air Corps
- Hoover is President
In 1930 the US population was 123 million. From 1930 to 1940
- Geo. Washington bridge is completed in NY.
- Great Depression reaches low point
- Franklin Roosevelt is president
- Social Security begins
- Shirley Temple sings "good ship lolly pop"
- Amelia Earhart disappears
- Pan Am begins trans-Atlantic service
- Selective Service begins
In 1940 the US population was 132 million